[Coco] New CoCo videos from Radio Shack

[Juan Castro]

Retrocomputing, if you count all classic platforms combined, is probably
quite huge. I could think a number of ways a company like RS could make a
killing therein. What about...

...a new computer monitor, good like any other you see around and perfectly
buyable by anybody who doesn't give a rodent's sphincter about retro, but
which accepts 15 kHz RGB?
...new hardware for classic computers, like disk emulators?
...RS-sponsored retro meetings?

Not a marketing guy, and my point of view is admittedly slanted, so I'm not
sure if those or others would make marketing sense. Boisy, what about
floating these ideas (and others I failed to think of right now) with your
cool new friends?

Juan

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>wrote:

> RadioShack is planning a push at a later date to their Twitter and Facebook
> accounts, both of which are heavily subscribed. Correctly so, I think, they
> didn't want to do too much promotion now due to all the buzz with the
> recent tech announcements, particularly the one from Apple, which would
> have muted most of the reaction. Either way, though, these types of videos
> probably don't have a great deal of general interest, but you've still got
> to try.
>
> As for the other questions, we'll definitely investigate all possible
> avenues for the book, including some type of partnership with RadioShack,
> though that is of course a long-shot (their stores are simply not set up
> anymore to carry books outside of a few of the stores with the "hacker"
> sections). It's still a bit early in the process to determine anything
> final with the book's ultimately destination, but we'll definitely keep
> everyone up-to-date. Thanks!
>
> -Bill
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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On 9/14/2012 9:15 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >
> >> The first has 300+ views now.  That is a little above average for a
> >> video mentioned on this list but not overwhelming.  I did post it in
> >> the coco facebook group as well, maybe that helped a little.  Not sure
> >> what other 'advertising' was done and I'm not sure what kind of
> >> response RS considers "good".  I guess it seems to be getting the
> >> attention that most CoCo things get but not much beyond that, I can
> >> see how that might look good or bad depending on expectations.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I don't know if it'll generate anymore traffic, but, I embedded the vids
> > on my site. Last I knew there were a few guys to are not on the list who
> > watched my site - they've probably been bored as hell for the last year,
> > tho...
> >
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